Sunday, June 15, 2014

Books We Love! Confessions of the World's Best Father

In
an attempt to create an image that his new daughter would one day
appreciate, Dave Engledow took a photo in which he's cradling
eight-week-old Alice Bee like a football and doctored it to look like
he's squirting breast milk into a "World's Best Father"
mug.

Friends and family clamored for more. After Dave's humorous
attempts to capture the sleep-deprived obliviousness of being a
first-time dad went viral, he and Alice Bee found themselves bona
fide Internet and television celebrities.

In
a Q & A at the Baltimore Sun, Dave reveals: “I
was one of the many Facebook users complaining about the
overabundance of baby pictures in my feed, so I was determined to do
something different,” Engledow said in a Q&A when asked about
how he got the idea for the photos.

“I had not originally intended
to insert myself into the images, but soon after Alice Bee was born,
I was inspired (probably due to lack of sleep) to portray what new
fatherhood felt like to me at the time—I wanted to show the
cluelessness and exhaustion felt as a new father, while poking fun at
myself. This inspiration turned into a shot of me holding Alice Bee
like a football while distractedly squirting her milk into my coffee
mug.”

Merging
a Norman Rockwell aesthetic with a darkly comic sensibility, Dave
pairs each side-splittingly funny image with a log entry describing
the awkward situation that the World's Best Father has found himself
in. Readers of Sh*t My Dad Says and Awkward
Family Photos will
devour the artful and hilarious Confessions of
the World's Best Father.